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 : Your excellency!

(in a mournful voice): And I’ve got to write the report! I haven’t time! (Returns to the table.) I can’t!


 * Your excellency, when can I have it? I need the money to-day.

(aside, angrily): Re—mark—ab—ly horrible woman! (Softly, to her.) Madame, I’ve told you already. This is a bank, a private, commercial establishment.


 * Be kind to me, your excellency; be a father to me! If the medical certificate isn’t enough, I can produce a certificate from the police. Tell them to give me the money.

(sighs heavily): Ugh!

(to Merchutkin): My dear lady, you’ve been told that you have made a mistake. What a woman you are, to be sure!


 * Beautiful lady, nobody cares about me. I’ve only one thing left, to eat and drink, and to-day I drank my coffee without any pleasure.

(feebly): How much do you want?


 * Twenty-four roubles, thirty-six kopecks.